Global AI Models & Regulatory Updates

At Berkshire Hathaway's shareholder meeting, CEO Abel highlighted new growth opportunities in the energy business driven by surging artificial intelligence-related power demand. Half of Berkshire's energy businesses are now handling AI-related electricity needs, with the company continuing to

At Musk’s first week of testimony at the federal court in Oakland, he accused Altman and Brockman of deceiving early nonprofit funds, warned of AI doomsday risks, and admitted that some of xAI’s model distillation came from OpenAI models; he testified that he invested $38 million and witnessed OpenAI transition from a nonprofit to a $800 billion valuation. Microsoft’s 2022 investment was seen as a turning point in the breakdown of trust. OpenAI argued that Musk was trying to poach talent and defended himself with motives of a competitor. In the following week two, witnesses included Russell and Brockman.

According to Fortune, AI Financial, a Trump family-linked cryptocurrency company formerly known as Alt5 Sigma, acquired Block Street, a crypto infrastructure firm, for $43 million last week. Matthew Morgan, an advisor to AI Financial and CEO of Block Street, stated the acquisition was not a

Bitcoin miner Riot's shares rose 8% following an expansion of its AMD data center agreement. The expanded partnership includes improved financing terms, underscoring Riot's strategic shift from bitcoin mining toward artificial intelligence data center operations. The move signals growing confidence

According to Decrypt, Minnesota's legislature passed a bill on May 2 prohibiting websites and applications from providing AI tools that generate non-consensual intimate images of identifiable individuals. The law bars platforms from allowing users to access or use such "deepfake" tools, and bans

According to Sam Altman's announcement today, ChatGPT users can now log in to the OpenClaw agent platform using their ChatGPT accounts and directly access their existing ChatGPT subscriptions on the platform.

According to Beating, xAI launched Grok Custom Voices and Voice Library, allowing users to record one minute of audio in the xAI console to generate a custom voice_id for use with Grok TTS and Voice Agent APIs. The feature supports applications including customer service agents, content creation,

Turing Award winner David Patterson said that as AI moves from training to large-scale inference, the next memory bottleneck may not be HBM, but HBF (high-bandwidth flash memory). HBF provides NAND Flash stacking for high capacity and low power consumption, handling the access to context and intermediate data during inference, which is different from the division of labor with speed-focused HBM. SK hynix and SanDisk are driving standardization, and they expect that by 2038, demand for HBF may surpass HBM.

Anthropic announced on May 1 that the first “Code with Claude” developer conference will open in San Francisco on May 6, and for the first time will expand into a three-city tour covering London (5/19) and Tokyo (6/10). In-person seats for the three main sessions are allocated via a lottery and have all already been selected, but live-stream registration remains open to everyone. To address demand overload for the in-person events, the San Francisco venue will add an extra “Extended” session on 5/7, designed specifically for independent developers and founders in the early stage. Three-city tour: 5/6 San Francisco, 5/19 London, 6/10 Tokyo Code with Claude is a developer conference hosted by Anthropic; the San Francisco main event has already been held for the second time. The content of all three events is the same: full-day on-site workshops, demos of the latest features, and Claude along every line

OpenAI posted 3 data points on May 1 from its official account after GPT-5.5 went live for one week: self-rated as the “strongest release of all time,” API revenue growth speed at more than 2x that of any previous model release, and Codex doubling its revenue in less than 7 days. OpenAI attributed the cause to the continued rise in enterprise demand for agentic coding (proxy-based coding) tools, and said it followed the same product cadence as Anthropic Mythos in a concurrent matchup with GPT-5.5-Cyber on April 30. 3 items from the disclosed data: API revenue growth pace, Codex doubling in 7 days, strongest release The 3 key figures OpenAI shared this time come from official tweets, with no detailed financial report attached: first, GPT-5.5 is the “strongest revenue growth” model of all time…

According to Beating, members of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee will travel to Silicon Valley next week to meet with representatives from Google, Anthropic, Meta, Tesla, Intel, Applied Materials, and Nvidia to discuss artificial intelligence and export controls. An industry roundtable is s

According to Beating, OpenAI has added a new "Codex Pets" feature to the Codex desktop application, allowing users to spawn and interact with an animated virtual companion. Users can activate a pet by typing /pet in the editor. The feature functions as an agent status indicator, displaying a

AISI released an assessment of GPT-5.5’s network attack capabilities in May: Expert difficulty 71.4%, Mythos Preview 68.6%. The gap is within the margin of error, essentially tied. GPT-5.5 has become the second system, after Mythos, that can automatically complete the 32-step enterprise intrusion of “The Last Ones.” It also found a universal jailbreak that can be developed in about 6 hours, enabling it to bypass malicious query filtering. Going forward, it will monitor the next round of evaluation timing and OpenAI’s update on this.

The U.S. Department of Defense announced in May that it signed confidential military networking deployment contracts with seven companies—SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services—then added Oracle as the eighth. The contracts allow models to run at the highest classified levels, Impact Level 6/7. The focus is on three major applications: data integration, combat decision-making, and battlefield situational awareness, emphasizing distributed risk and avoiding vendor lock-in. Anthropic was blacklisted for refusing to accept the military’s security guardrails and did not receive a contract. AMD was not directly listed; GPUs are provided by NVIDIA and others. Next, watch whether Anthropic backs down and what roles new selectees such as Reflection will play.

Sunnyvale, California-based AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems is seeking up to US$4 billion in an IPO that could value the company at approximately US$40 billion, according to Bloomberg. Formal marketing could begin as soon as May 4, with banks receiving more than US$10 billion in indications of

According to Beating, China's National Development and Reform Commission halted Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI agent company Manus, prompting the China Securities Regulatory Commission to tighten approval for Hong Kong IPO listings by red-chip companies (Chinese firms holding domestic assets th

According to multiple media reports, Elon Musk completed three days of testimony in his lawsuit against OpenAI on April 28-30, with cumulative testimony lasting over 7 hours. Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 with an initial investment of $38 million, claimed the company abandoned its non-profit m

According to Bloomberg, Meta acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, an AI robotics startup with offices in San Diego and New York, on May 1. The acquired team, including co-founders Lerrel Pinto and Xiaolong Wang, will join Meta Superintelligence Labs and work with Meta Robotics Studio. Financial

According to WIRED, the nonprofit organization Build American AI, affiliated with the super PAC Leading the Future, has been systematically recruiting social media influencers through the marketing agency SM4 to spread "China threatens U.S. AI" messaging on TikTok and Instagram. The organization

According to The Economic Times, on May 1, Amsterdam-based AI infrastructure firm Nebius announced it will acquire Eigen AI for approximately $643 million in cash and Class A shares. Eigen AI, founded by former MIT researchers, specializes in inference and optimization technology. Nebius plans to in